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Artistic research investigates the relationship between bodies and materials in fashion design, suggesting new practices and insights.
‘Dialogical Bodies: Everything and Everybody as Material’ explores how artistic research in the field of fashion (design) practice can negotiate the relationship between bodies and materials. It explores what bodies and materials are—and could be(come)—in fashion design and practice. In doing so, it focuses on different kinds of fashion matter and materiality, including the physical materiality of dressed bodies and identities, to highlight fashion’s sensorial, embodied and affective potential. Through artistic and creative practice research, it underlines the experiential dimensions of fashion, fashion design and fashion practice, opening up alternative ways of making, designing and engaging with fashion.
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